Left gastroepiploic artery

The left gastroepiploic artery, the largest branch of the splenic artery, runs from left to right about a finger's breadth or more from the greater curvature of the stomach, between the layers of the greater omentum, and anastomoses with the right gastroepiploic.
In its course it distributes:

"Gastric branches": several ascending branches to both surfaces of the stomach;
"Omental branches": descend to supply the greater omentum and anastomose with branches of the middle colic.
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